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UCL Grand Challenges

• Global Health
• Intercultural Interaction
• Human Wellbeing

Showcase and Reception

The Grand Challenges held a showcase in the South Cloisters between the 28th and the 30th of January 2013. The event featured posters from the interdisciplinary collaborations that have been made possible with Small Grants funding. Examples of work from the Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities are shown below.

• GCSC (Campos) Integrated Production of Algal Biomass poster
  View full-size photo here.
• GCSC (Fraser) Gaza Learning Room poster
  View full-size photo here.
• GCSC (Hui) New Loos for London poster
  View full-size photo here.
• GCSC (Lemanski) The City in Urban Poverty poster
  View full-size photo here.
• GCSC (Nasiri) Water Reuse Networks poster
  View full-size photo here.
• GCSC (Shepley) One Day in the City poster
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• GCSC (Wood-Hill) Whose Olympics?
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• GCSC (Wilson) Planning the Healthy City
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• GCSC (Taws) Ephemeral Cities-Sustainable Research into Non-Sustainable Urban Objects
  View full-size photo here.
• GCSC (Chang) Developing Sustainable Agri-Food Systems in London
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• GCSC (Lipietz) Community Participation in City Wide Planning
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• GCSC (Stewart) MyStreet & Open Citys Doc Festival
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The showcase also included posters from the Grand Challenge of Global Health, the Grand Challenge of Human Wellbeing and the Grand Challenge of Intercultural Interaction.

• View posters from all of the Grand Challenges
  

A reception for the showcase was held from 6pm on the 29th of January.

• Read our blog about the event

Speakers:

Professor David Price (Vice Provost, Research UCL) UCL Research Strategy and the Grand Challenges

Dr Barbara Penner (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) Sanitation and the Urban Poor: The case of urine diversion toilets in Durban, South Africa

Dr Michael Stewart (UCL Anthropology) Open City: Architecture

Dr François Guesnet (Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL) Negotiating Religion: Inquiries into the history and present of religious accommodation

Dr Eve Macharia (Institute of Child Health) Tracking Activity in Relation to Disease: Using smartphone technology to create novel epidemiological tool